Meet Logan Olson

Logan Olson has been a strong inspiration in my life. I admire her.

She’s a writer and the creative director of, Logan Magazine. It’s a magazine for youth with disabilities. She knows what it is like to live with a disability.

Logan was born with congenital heart disease. She survived a heart attack, but fell into a coma, which left her with traumatic brain injury. Logan had to relearn many basic motor skills like swallowing and combing her hair.

Logan is a fighter. She hasn’t given up, which I find inspiring. Many people would understand if she wanted to give up and quit. They’d understand if she didn’t try. She could easily have blamed the world for the hand she had been dealt in life.

Logan kept going and striving. Logan realized that youth with disabilities needed a magazine that addressed their issues. So, she created it.

How I Use Logan’s Magazine as a recreational therapist

I provide treatment services for children at a residential treatment facility located in one of the two Virginias. These children have suffered abuse and have learned to act-out the same abusive behaviors on others These children (in general) don’t have any physical disabilities. However, they’ve suffered emotional trauma and physical abuse and sadly, sometimes, sexual abuse, too.

Based on my experience working with this population over the last 7-years, I’ve found that many of these kids use “blame.” They blame the world for everything. Many people would think who’d blame them. However, I take a different approach. I do my best to teach these kids to take responsibility to turn their own lives around and to create a better future. I use examples from Logan’s magazine. I tell the children that if teens in Logan’s magazine can turn their life around after a disability then they can surely turn their life around, too.

You can and should subscribe to her magazine at this link:
http://www.loganmagazine.com/

You can add Logan Olson as a friend on facebook.


Here is her link:
http://www.facebook.com/loganmagazine

Do you want to hear Logan speak?

She'll may be a keynote speaker for the Washington State Therapeutic Recreation Association's 11th annual conference. For more information, go here: http://www.wstra.org/professional_development.htm